Adam The God

What's that based on?

You're not serious are you mate?

Not actually sure mate. Just know that he was 16 and Year 10 this year. Will know more about him next year.

He should be playing 1sts next year. Was in the 10As at CGS this year, but the 1sts and 2nds are both very strong sides I'm told.

You've got to remember which clubs drive clicks too. It makes sense for speculation to orient itself around the bigger clubs.

Didn't Cal Twomey report recently that it'll be a second round pick for Grundy?

And converting his shots inside 50 into goals.

And yet Spargo always polls well in coaches awards and is continually selected, so perhaps plan A is not to bomb it long to the outnumber and ignore him?

Without wanting to stoop to this level, I will. Spargo is an assist king. It would be better if he also improved his goal kicking return, but it's not a fair comparison on the goals front, because what defensive pressure, gut running and safety of ball use is Spargo bringing that Hunt didn't in the same position?

You have a truly bizarre taste in footballers. You like a guy that gets it 10 times and can run quickly, but you don't like a guy that gets in 10 times and is an elite kick. I reckon about the only one you've got right, PF, is Clarry, and Blind Freddy would have got that one.

Exactly. It takes time to grow synergy and trust.

Wow, I'd forgotten they only made finals twice. Terrible record.

@Chook in Perth was pretty good too.

Lever is 26. What are you talking about, Steve? He's likely to still be on a significant contract. And yes, I wouldn't be taking on 850k just to get pick 7. It's incredible some still value draft picks so highly, particularly bang smack in the middle of our premiership window. If it was a top 3 pick, maybe that's a different story, but 850k is far too much to take on for pick 7 and likely our 2023 future first. I'd much prefer we put that 850k to a plug and play star we may want to target this year or next year. Edit. I see you've seen the light lol.

They certainly don't make it easy to work out what is changing. Follow this link, follow that link etc etc.

I don't think I had a strong opinion on it actually.

We do, but everyone does.

A 40 goal forward in his third year was not much help? FMD.

This happens every year on Demeyland. If the media doesn't link us to 3 or 4 players on the market, it means we're not looking at anyone.

You're very negative aren't you?

Because we don't do a scatter gun approach. We work quietly and professionally behind the scenes. We have done this for quite a while now. Just because we're not linked to players does not mean we're not having conversations and looking at ways to improve our list.

That's a very hard thing to measure. Great players always make role players look better. I thought it was our core that struggled and this then impacted on the effectiveness of role players.

Where did I say we shouldn't replenish the list? I was referring to the idea that Geelong have all these top picks and new players coming to them (supposedly) and was making the obvious argument that it's not a fair comparison - their core will all have retired over the next 3 years. Likewise, I hope we're not taking your panic stations attitude either. The idea that the bottom 6 win premierships is nonsense. Look at Richmond. Their top players won it for them, specifically Martin. The rest are role players in a system. It's not 1996 anymore. System always wins out.

How do you know where we intend to play him? Who says we're looking at him as a KPP? Why not a winger? See Blicavs...

It's not like for like though, is it? When we won our premiership, we were aiming to be the first premiership team to ever play another game together. It'd never happened before, such was the age profile of our list. Oliver and Petracca not yet at their physical peaks, Lever, Kozzy and Jackson at the time etc. Compare this with Geelong and they face the very real possibility of falling off a cliff next year due to their age profile. They need to replenish their list. We didn't. We were undone by injury to our best players. Had Geelong suffered a similar fate, they don't win the flag. As simple as that.